The antidote for belladonna poisoning is physostigmine or pilocarpine, the same as for atropine.
He described the effects of camphor, opium, belladonna and turpentine on humans in 1829.
These include aconite (also called "hecateis"), belladonna, dittany, and mandrake.
Medicinal herbs such as digitalis, menthol, artemisia and belladonna, are also found in these forests.
Belladonna drops act as an antimuscarinic, blocking receptors in the muscles of the eye that constrict pupil size.
It consisted of a mixture of belladonna, stramonium and potassium perchlorate, and was a fine powder intended to be burnt and the smoke inhaled.
In early youth he treated himself with belladonna.
At least one 19th-century eclectic medicine journal explained how to prepare a belladonna tincture for direct administration to patients.
